If that happened, even I, Captain Planet, wouldn't be able to help.

Regarding fossil fuel price; I remember going to America for the first time and seeing the petrol prices, having always heard how hilarious it was that Americans think their fuel is expensive when it's a fraction of what we pay in the UK, and I was sorta thinking "These prices don't *seem* that low! If I do the conversion maths it seems like New Yorkers are paying about the same as the UK does, maybe even more!". After a few days I realised that Americans don't price fuel by litre, they price it by gallon, meaning that the prices I'd thought were about the same were actually nearly as low as a quarter the amount!

**sees the heat map update** **goes to see what kind of places are for sale on Zillow in Mongolia**

Also, what is your opinion of carbon negative fossil fuel technologies? How realistic are they? Like Origen power process

Can you do a video on advanced nuclear fission reactors please?

That joke in the end

You should have definitely said "Fossils TOO" instead of 'Fools'. I know it breaks the alliteration, but it retains the imperfect rhyme and is also less worse pun.

I see you Joe. spreading your bad puns to other channels.

First it would be a swamp, then turn into mad max

Nuclear energy! Molten salt reactors AP1000 Thorium Fast breeder reactors Cheers

Is there any technology available that could potentially filter out any gasses emitted by burning fossil fuels and capture the CO2 and then dispose of it? Thus allowing for the use of fossil fuels for energy, but capturing and destroying/repurposing the co2 that comes from it?

y'all fossl fools

I really like the idea of fossil fuels including the price of their future impact. I think we could include these costs in lots of products, like meat and plastics. What if Pepsi and Coke had to pay for recycling their bottles? Companies right now are only responsible for getting you to buy their product, not making sure you dispose of it safely. We live in a materialistic society, and this could help us focus on buying what we need, maintaining what we have, and leaving natural resources for future generations.

The idea that we can burn more fossil fuels without exceeding 2 degrees of warming is only viable if we can figure out how to capture gigatons of CO2 from the atmosphere, and we don't really know how to do that in a way that doesn't cost enormous amounts of money.

not fossil fools, but fossilized fools, newcomers in a dinosaurs park

If we burned it all right now all at once of course it would suck.

Thanks for this video! I have an English lesson with my student and this is going to be our topic in 30 minutes.

I have just learned about jet streams and that they influence the (in)stability of weather systems. Please do a video on how global warming changes the jet streams.

So, if there is so much fossil fuel left, why did they tell us 15 years ago that there will only be enough oil for another 40 years?

That hand at 4:30

Joe you really should have told me about this channel more! I didn't even know what I was missing! I enjoy Smarter Everyday so much and now I have something else to binge :D

Thanks Joe and team. Can you also do a video on the next gen nuclear technologies such as TWRs and maybe even fusion reactors?

Governments may finally consider Alternate/Green Energy as that'll be their only choice also, Tesla's stock price would hit through the roof I hope more people subscribe to this channel, it's grossly underrated.

Mount Everest is not a mountain, it's a summit. The mountain you meant to say is actually a mountain chain called the Himalayas...

So how did dinosaurs survive back then when CO2 levels where much higher? Why can’t we live in that environment?

And this didn't even cover positive feedback...

Sweden would have California weather

I like that we're changing our habbits. I just think we're not doing it fast enough...

Thank God we don't turn our planet into Venus

I agree renewable.

It reaches 48°C here in the Middle East and I just can’t handle. I hate summer 😕

I just want to understand something, what form was the carbon on earth "originally" in, before any life forms? And what process does convert carbon from the ground into building material for life? Because plants today take their carbon from the air, but which process pulled it out of the ground ?

We have to build more with Carbon Fiber, like waaaay More!

The issue might soon be solved. The allies are working together to combat the carbon emissions by working together to construct a fusion reactor in the next ten years

We need more fossil fuels not less. There are millions living in abject poverty without access to energy. Fossil fuels are lifesaving and lift people out of poverty.

The earth gets big insects/trees again, while we all die. Doesnt seem so bad for an enviromentalist.

Do those calculations account for other greenhouse gasses that are increasingly being released into the atmosphere? Methane from cattle, other fuels released accidentally (LP, etc?) Granted, they may not account for as much warming as CO2 (at our current rate of usage,) but I'm sure it'd be significant over several decades. Love the new channel!!!

We've already gone past the 2 degree Celsius cap. We talk about it in class all the time and people are showing it in the data. Environmental Studies Major here. The question now is, how do we adapt?

Agree with the concepts, I'm not sure about the math.

50 years ago, we were told that Petrol would run out within 20 years, which would mean we haven't any left, but now we know this was a scaremongering way to raise the prices, its all ways to raise prices.

I didnt expect johnny knoxville here

Dear lord, How did the dinosaurs ever manage with that much CO2 in the atmosphere?

New fossil fuels come from dinosaurs 🦕? How many dinosaurs does it take to make a dinosaur the size of our planet?

1:41 What happened to Europe

i guess you could say, it would be a "Hot Mess"

He waited for the entire show to make that fuel-ish pun. Can you discuss the degree planned obsolescence affects energy consumption from carbon, which affect carbon dioxide production?

Will there be a video about agriculture?

Without GW, another ice age is inevitable. Check out Milakovitch Cycles.

hmmm. What about finding a way to burn those fossil fuels but instead of releasing the gasses to the atmosphere, trap them somewhere else and put them back on solid or liquid state?

But the real question is, how do we stop the tectonic plates from moving?

If lots of people do eco friendly things and thought of others then themselves the world would be a better place

What about "beautiful clean coal" lol

Do video on ocean currents

Make the fuel expensive? Yeah, look at France now.

3:35 I'm a south Indian and my home will sink.. Thanks a lot "enlightened US".

Yay Joe!!!

I'm sorry, but making fuel more expensive doesn't make people not need gas, it just makes people have to pay more for it.

Renewable energy problem is the price. Already government here estimates the power costs to increase by 30% by winter due to "going green". This could mean some people start freezing since they cannot afford heating and do not have "fossil fuel" heating.

@Hot Mess In Turkey Benzin is 6,84 Diesel is 6,47 Lira. %55 Percent of this price is Government Tax. So we do a lot for that. Every guy who owns a Car in here is considered rich, because For Example 1.3LT motor Megane Sedan car is cost 106.000 Lira around 60.000 Lira is tax. Turkey is at world record for Taxing Cars and Fuel. Still we have much of them. When we buy 1 car here, we buy 2 car to government. What can we do more ???? A 100k car cost 50 Times of minimum wage. Cheapest car is around 100k.

am i the only one who didnt know he had a second channel?

These videos are incredible.

Doesen't this also depend on how it's refined? Wouldn't a denser refined product with sulphates, deflect more heat, yet allow more energy release?

Please do a video on the economic obstacle coming in our way to live a more eco-friendly life

How do you get 400 years of oil left. Everywhere I look they say we have 50 years at present consumption, which is unlikely to remain constant but go up.

Just put some sunglasses on the earth

Fossilefuel should be used in space or on other planets

how does adding more ram makes it more efficient?

Incorrect, the 1st world is moving away from them. The 3rd world is moving towards them because they want to develop. I'll let you look up the number of people who die from complications related to indoor wood burning for heat and cooking.

Brazil makes fuels from sugarcane... it's quite cool

I wish there was a way to like a video and subscribe to the channel more than once

Another way would be to more sensible size families, there by cutting the need for so much energy.

You forget that the earth is extremely versatile, heating increases the clouds ability to carry the evaporated icebergs hence little sea rises, trees and plants create renewable fuels as well as food. Nuclear reactors are a better base load source of power than the solar cells currently available as the shelf life, run life is far less polluting in the long term. Wind generation needs redesign to work better for us. The massive windmills have proven wasteful with resource and hard to recycle. Newer low profile generation is needed if we plan to harvest wind , the noise factor is bad because of tower generators...

We do NOT have 400 years of oil and coal.

we’d be a hot mess

I dont want to set the world onnn fireee

Goes back in time I warned them to NEVER NEVER burn fossil fuel now they use sunlight and water and wind and showed them the damage

We should protect the planet because their is only one 🌏

Then we would have to seek out tau volantis in search of the marker home world.

I'll give it 20 years

Shale gas is freaking easy to get.

So what you are saying is that we've used 3 of 6, or half the carbon we should be allowed to use already. I think you should relook at the math. 2C isn't an obtainable goal. It's not because we can't restrict our use to that goal but because once we cross over 1C (which we've already done) runaway GW starts. There are only two ways to stop GW now, remove enough CO2 from the air to get back under the 1C limit or block out the sun to stop the warming. Niether of which we are doing.

Discovered new channel!

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And the gulf stream will not exist... yay

you know as well as anyone else that increasing the price of fossil fuels would probably not make them less appealing. It would just creat a black market for them.

Can we even predict what would happened if we burned all fossil fuels? It'd be a lot hotter but how much hotter? How much of the planet would be uninhabitable? Weighing my options here.

Plz. do "What if we burned all of the world's drugs?" I'm really curious if we'll all get high

2000 ppm would increase vegetation growth by up to 40% in ideal conditions. With that, there could be an uptick of pests and plant disease as most growth will be uncontrolled. Without new CO2 additives (after the 30 everests are released), levels will fall back down to probably 200ppm or so. Some plants can consume 2g/m^2/hr. There's a reason why levels if CO2 fell that low. Plants are suffocating in this environment. It's like you on mt Everest.

the decision wheter i´d watch this video took me no time

Well, I used to be all for insane gas prices, but I do delivery now. Ha. Funny right. I think high gas prices just make certain people rich. Not me. And the need, has only increased. DD lowered their base pay, while gas prices rise. I don't see any changes in GH. Some people still don't tip, yet expect a delivery, completely unaware of the cost on others. And big business supports this to make money for themselves, while using delivery drivers as leverage for themselves, while having the audacity to call us partners. But the burden falls on us while they make money. Walmart did this so much, that they had to start using other platforms as so many drivers wouldn't take their insidiously low paying orders. Charging more for gas will only help the corporate giant, and create further hardships for the front line workers. Can cooling fans be added to solar panels? Can we plant vegetation around them that loves high temps, to lower the temp of the area? What if all big corporations had to install solar? Yes, each individual needs to make changes, but to what end? I recycle. I have to haul it to another place as there is no collection here. I wash things out, and say, if they don't recycle it, its not on me. Its unlikely to get recycled. I think maybe I should go back to school and become a chemist to invent a slurry of acid something that has various suspension levels, or just one and we can dump trash in it, and it breaks it down completely, and when it gets saturated has some other use. Or we can build large ionic air scrubbers and scrape off the coke ash and use it to fix roads, or reburn? Like putting pulp back through a juicer. Have them near coal plants. Or in particularly polluted cities. Can we get bird experts to come up with something to deter birds from being killed by turbines? I can't imagine that the only two solutions are make alternatives more appealing, or charge more for the products we have been groomed to depend on. Im already trying to choose less petroleum dependent products. Its so hard. Options don't exist. Refill. Zero waste. Still such small movements. Yes we consume, but is it more than corporate greed? Can the US deal with its own recycling? That change, caused huge issues, still unresolved. This video perpetuates the bull rhetoric. I may stay subscribed simply to call bull. Or maybe, you'll start coming out with some real authentic solutions.

At least new Yorkers would know how it is in Houston >:)

Hahahahaha "Fossil fools"!!!!!!

Hi from SciShow!

wait but if we burn it all would the alot of areas colaspes from nothing being where the the fuels where

Hey, I just wanted to say these videos are extremely insightful and enjoyable to watch, However I would like to ask if you could possibly do a video on the effects of agriculture and cattle ranching as these account for around 60% of global warming whereas burning fossil fuels only 14%, Thanks!

Great channel!

No, a lot of things will happen. It's you opinion that they are bad. I'm getting beach front property in Antarctica.

It would be a hot mess

I wonder if there's any part of our lives the government doesn't need to be involved with.

You didn't mention that 2000ppm carbon dioxide in air you can't breathe on long run "Headaches, sleepiness and stagnant, stale, stuffy air. Poor concentration, loss of attention, increased heart rate and slight nausea may also be present"